Apparel-corset.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 1904.

NO MODEL.

Patented August 2, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Yatent No. 766,705, dated. August 2, 1904,

Application filed February 29, 1904. Serial No. 195,725. (No model.)

To mil 11/72/0710 t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparel corsets adapted for attachment thereto of supporters for the hose; and the object of my invention is to effect a pull or tension downward at the frontsteels of the corset by the hose-supporters, especially in more than one direction, for the purpose of the twofold function of pro ducing a Hat effect or appearance and to hold down the corset.

In carrying out my invention the vertical meeting edges of the corset at and adjacent to the front steels are provided with broad tapering strips narrowest at the top edge of the corset and widest at the lower end. These strips overlie the fabric body and terminate in tab prolongations extending away from and at an obtuse angle to the steels. The fabric body of the corset at the lower ends of the steels is free from the aforesaid tabs and is continued down or prolonged as tabs below the steels. The form of these strips and the manner of connecting them to the corset by lines of sewing is such that said lines of sewing and the steels form three-sided angular figures having a stiffness for both vertical and inclined tension, the hose-supporters to the inside of the limbs being connected to the fabric-body tabs and those to the outside of the limbs connected to the inclined tabs of the tapering strips. Therefore while one line of tension is straight down the other is outward at an acute angle to the other line of tension. Bone sti'lfeners may be employed between the fabric portions and within these lines of sewing.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elex'ation at the front of the corset, showing the front steels as slightly separated. Fig. 2 is an elevation at the lower end of the corset at one side, showing the upper tab as turned over to indicate that it is separate from the tab of the fabric body. Fig. 3 is a section at :r :1: of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4C is a section at 1 y of Fig. 1.

a 7) represent the fabric body at the front of the corset. This fabric body may be made up in any desired manner, as the same forms no necessary part of my invention.

0 (Z are the front steels, and 0 (Z the hooks and studs of the steels.

c and f represent tapering strips of fabric, narrowest at their upper ends and widest at their lower ends. Their upper ends aline with the upper edge of the corset. These strips (2 f are connected to the fabric body a 7), respectively, at the seam 6, Fig. 4, which seam is at the vertical edges of the corset in line with the edges of the steels, and said strips appreciably distant from the steels are connected to the corset-body (r 7) by lines of sewing 2 3, that slightly diverge from the line of the steels, but are substantially vertical, and by other lines of sewing et 5, at an acute angle to the lines of the steels, which extend up to and meet the lower ends of the lines of sewing 2 3, so that the seam 6 and the corset-steels at one edge and the lines of sewing 2 3 and 4 5 together form three-sided angular figureshaving a degree of stiffness for both vertical and inclined tension. These lines of sewing 2 3 and 4 form pockets in the fabric-that is, between the fabric body 1/ Z) and the strips wf' into which bones may be put, if desired, to further stiffen the structure for the more perfect performance of the function.

The lower end of the fabric body (1/?) is continued downward beyond the lower end of the steels 1; (Z as tabs (1 b, that are directly in line with the steels and to which the hose-supporters on the inside of the limbs are to be connected, the action of which is to pull straight down against the corset. The lower ends of the tapering strips of are continued as prolongations beyond the lines of sewing at 5 as tabs ef. The line of these tabs is at an acute angle to the line of the corset-steels, and to these tabs the hose-supporters from the outside of the limbs are to be connected. Therefore while one line of hose-supporters draws down the other draws apart, tending to separate the parts of the corset, the one line of strain being at an acute angle to the other line of strain, producing a fiat-front effect of the corset, the hose-supporters tending to hold the corset down into place.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body and front steels, of tapering strips of fabric connected to the fabric body along the line of and inclosing the front steels and connected to the fabric body adjacent thereto by the diverging lines of sewing 2, 3 and 4, 5 so as to form angular figures lengthwise of and between the ends of the corset-steels, and means for connecting hosesupporters to the corset.

2.'In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body and front steels, of tapering strips of fabric connected to the fabric body along the line of and inclosing the front steels and connected to the fabric body adjacent thereto by the diverging lines of sewing 2, 3 and 4, 5 so as to form an angular figure, and prolongations of the fabric body and of the tapering strips and to which the hosesupporters may be connected.

3. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body and front steels, of tapering strips of fabric connected to the fabric body along the line of and inclosing the front steels, and connected to the fabric body adjacent thereto by the diverging lines of sewing 2, 3 and 4, 5, so as to form an angular figure, and separate and independent prolongations of the fabric body, and tapering strips brlow the lines of sewing 4, 5 forming tabs to which the hose-supporters may be connected.

4. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body and front steels, of tapering strips of fabric connected to the fab ric body along the line of and inclosing the front steels, and connected to the fabric body adjacent thereto by the diverging lines of sewing 2, 3 and 4, 5 so as to form an angular figure, bone stiffeners in the pockets formed between the fabric by said lines of sewing with ends abutting each other and the steels, and means for connecting hose-supporters to the corset.

5. In an apparel-corset, the combination with the fabric body and front steels, of tapering strips of fabric connected to the fabric body along the line of and inclosing the front steels and connected to the fabric body adjacent thereto by the diverging lines of sewing 2, 3 and 4, 5 so as to form an angular figure, bone stifl eners in the pockets formed by said lines of sewing with ends abutting each other and the steels and separate and independent prolongations of the fabric body and tapering strips below thelines of sewing 4, 5 forming tabs to which hose-supporters may be connected.

DANIEL. KOPS.

Witnesses:

ERNST NEWMANN, Gno. T. PINCKNEY. 

